The Greatest Sign
The Greatest Sign
“Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath and from the coastlands of the sea. 12. And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Isaiah 11:10-11
We are living in a time unique to every past generation. Of course, every past generation could say that. But there is something in our time that does not compare to anything in the past.
Isaiah prophesied about a coming event that will take place when Jesus returns to earth to establish the kingdom of God with Jerusalem as the capitol. At that time, one of the things that will happen is all the surviving believing Jews will be gathered from all over earth and brought back to Israel where they will live in the promised territory to Abraham. Jesus declared this will be a supernatural gathering in Matthew 24:30-31, saying that when He returns he will send His angels to bring them.
The interesting thing about the passage in Isaiah 11 is that it is referring to a 2nd re-gathering from all over the world. What about the first?
This year on November 29th, marks the 70th anniversary of the U.N. resolution that allowed for the establishment of a Jewish state. A government was formed and six months later the United States became the first country to formally recognize Israel. Harry Truman famously declared, “I am Cyrus”, hearkening back to the ancient king of Persia. After conquering the Babylonian empire, Cyrus allowed the captive Jews to return to Judah and rebuild the Temple that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed. Many Jews were taken into captivity by the Babylonians and they remained so for 70 years until Cyrus.
Some think that the first ‘re-gathering’ took place when the Jews from the Babylonian captivity returned to Judah. This does not make sense because there were still plenty of Jews that remained after Nebuchadnezzar conquered it. Not all the inhabitants were taken into captivity. In fact, Nebuchadnezzar left a government in place with Zedekiah as king, albeit a puppet. Reasonable calculations based on historical records, including Jeremiah, estimate that only 1/8 to 1/4 of the inhabitants of Judah were taken into exile.
In 70 A.D., Judah ceased to exist when the Romans wiped out Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and drove all the Jews from their homes, scattering them throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. This is known as the Diaspora. The northern kingdom of Israel had already vanished into exile in 722 B.C after the conquering by the Assyrians.
Aliyah
The ‘beautiful land’ became desolate and empty of Abraham’s descendants for almost 2,000 years. In the late 1800’s the Zionist movement began and along with it, Aliyah. Aliyah means ‘to go up’, as in to Jerusalem, and it came to signify the mass migration of Jews back to the land of Israel. From 1881 to 1939 in a series of waves of Aliyah, close to 500,000 Jews moved to Israel, mostly from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Since Israel became a recognized nation again in 1948, Jews from all over the world have poured in. It was reported in 2003 that for the first time in almost 2000 years Israel held the highest concentration of Jews in the world, surpassing the United States. Today there are nearly 7 million Jews in Israel and migration has essentially gone to zero. It appears that Yahweh may be finished with the 1st re-gathering.
Scripture is clear that the Jewish nation had to exist again before the return of Christ. Jesus left a message for future Jewish believers in the tribulation that when they see the antichrist standing in the Holy of Holies in the coming Temple, they are to flee Jerusalem (Matt. 24:15).
Eclipses, constellations and the Great Pyramid may have significance as signs this fall, but the regathering of the Jewish people back into the Promised Land is the single greatest Biblical sign that we are living in the last days. The fact that this is the 70th year since the U.N. resolution should not be ignored, either. I don’t believe it is coincidental when you see certain numbers used by God repeatedly (7, 40, 70) to mark important times and events.
Does this anniversary hold some special apocalyptic significance? Who is to say? But we can say that Isaiah 11:11 has been partially fulfilled in this generation. Maranatha!
Dan Baker
Remember, what the apostle Paul said, "but test (or prove) everything; hold fast what is good!" (1 Thes 5:21 ESV)
Christians should not be afraid of investigating for the truth.
Remember as well, Eph6:12 For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age. These forces are running and ruining our world. They are in control of governments, industries and most people. You have to deal with this fact. Why hide the flat earth. Because Satan wants evolution and needs this spinning ball thing flying through space. He can't have people knowing there is a firmament over a motionless flat earth. That screams God made it. So he brain washes the people into believing a lie and we all bought the lie. This proves how effective Satan is at deceiving the nations. He has deceived even you and me. But God will allow us to see through Satan's lies if we will read and study His Word and observe His creation. Creation screams of the glory of God.
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Rob Cookson
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